This section will discuss plagiarism and the ethical use of information.
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Academic Integrity is an ethical way to participate in scholarship, demonstrating morality in your academic behavior; it is "a commitment, even in the face of adversity, to six fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage. From these values flow principles of behavior that enable academic communities to translate ideals into action." (International Center for Academic Integrity).
So what does this mean for you? Put simply: be honest, trustworthy, fair, respectful, and responsible in all of your work. Carefully evaluate all of your sources and cite them!
Digital Literacy, just like information literacy, is the ability to know when you need information, how to search for it, where to search for it, and how to use it ethically, but all in an online context. We are constantly using the internet for various purposes, but how we interact with that information is what's most important.
Just because something is online doesn't mean it's free for the taking. You still need to cite your sources, including images, graphics, videos, audio files, and more. Use a resource like Purdue OWL to find out how to format your citations for all of these in MLA or APA.
Also remember that every time you type a query in a search engine, send an email, make a purchase online, or anything else, you are creating a profile of yourself online. Google's algorithm wouldn't work without all of our continuous input, whether we realize it or not.
Plagiarism is the false claim that someone else's ideas, words, images, or other information are your own. The concept of plagiarism grew up alongside copyright law in the 17th century, when printing and book culture were on the rise due to the increasing use of the technique of printing with moveable type. We will be discussing copyright and other attribution systems next week.
Plagiarism can be unintentional or accidental, but nevertheless it is a serious offense at City Colleges.
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CCC is committed to the ideals of truth and honesty. Students are expected to adhere to high standards of honesty and integrity in their academic endeavors. Plagiarism and cheating of any kind are serious violations of these standards.
Academic dishonesty is a serious offense, which includes but is not limited to the following: cheating, complicity, fabrication and falsification, forgery, and plagiarism. Cheating involves copying another student’s paper, exam, quiz, or use of technology devices to exchange information during class time and/or testing. It also involves the unauthorized use of notes, calculators, and other devices or study aids. In addition, it includes the unauthorized collaboration on academic work of any sort. Complicity, on the other hand, involves the attempt to assist another student to commit an act of academic dishonesty. Fabrication and falsification, respectively, involve the invention or alteration of any information (data, results, sources, identity, etc.) in academic work. Another example of academic dishonesty is forgery, which involves the duplication of a signature in order to represent it as authentic. In addition, students who reuse their own material (coursework, published material, research, etc) must receive approval from their current instructor prior to submitting work used in another class, otherwise this may be considered a form of plagiarism. Lastly, plagiarism involves the failure to acknowledge sources (of ideas, facts, charges, illustrations, etc.) properly in academic work, thus falsely representing other source material as one’s own work. The use of artificial intelligence tools without the explicit permission of the instructor is a form of academic dishonesty.
In individual cases of academic dishonesty, sanctions may include one or more of the following: an F grade on an assignment where academic dishonesty occurred, a written warning, a failing grade for the course, and/or issuing of an academic dishonesty withdrawal (see ADH – Academic Dishonesty Withdrawal). The severity of the penalty is left to the discretion of the instructor, except the issuing of an academic dishonesty withdrawal which requires Vice President approval. A student may appeal a finding of academic dishonesty (see Appeal Instructional Grading, Academic Dishonesty).
Additional sanctions may be imposed up to and including dismissal from CCC when circumstances warrant it and/or the revocation of a previously awarded degree or certificate (see Revocation of Degrees or Certificates). A student may appeal additional sanctions (see Disciplinary Hearings and Appeal of Discipline).